Example sentences of "is [adv] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE search is on for someone to fill a top training post . |
| 2 | It is enough for her to know that things are going badly for Mrs Thatcher and the Tory party ; the details of the Westland affair do not engage her interest . |
| 3 | It is enough for me to say that , on the basis of those two cases , the arguments of the two councils in the Stoke-on-Trent case struck your Lordships as being very powerful , but not sufficiently powerful to persuade your Lordships ' House that it need not refer the matter to the European Court of Justice under article 177 . |
| 4 | Now , I 've got ta tell ya , that in itself is enough for me to say close it , anything that 's related to Co Coronation Street . |
| 5 | It would seem that we now have four hundred thousand pounds available that was n't apparent before , and that 's come from the Department of the Environment , and that is enough for me to say well , we 've got something out of it , it was n't a fiasco or a waste of time and now I can rejoin the Conservative group with some degree of credibility . |
| 6 | Even if we meet with fellow humans from other parts of our globe where the spoken and written languages are different , the common , basic sense of meaning which we carry in our minds is enough for us to communicate through gesture and signs and to know that , should we care to , we can learn each other 's language . |
| 7 | On the other hand we are fortunate indeed if we happen to be in a business that is so secure that it is enough for us to make effortless decisions that never require us to do more than flow along with established patterns . |
| 8 | You may have put off beginning lace knitting because you know that it requires an extra carriage and one carriage is enough for you to master as a beginner . |
| 9 | It is only for us to accept what God in his mystery may send to us . |
| 10 | It is a mere trifle ; it is only for us to keep the fruits of the victory that they have won ’ ( Liverpool , 1903 ) . |
| 11 | Provided he is not forced to drop them it may be that Gorbachev , ironically , could be the first world leader to actually reduce a country 's intelligence agencies on the grounds that there is less for them to do . |
| 12 | But that is not for them to decide ’ ( I , 60 ) . |
| 13 | As for service , it is not for me to give value to the two halves of my equation . ’ |
| 14 | Now it is not for me to give my opinion as to that and I do not , but I think it right that the general public should understand and be aware that this is now the law . ’ |
| 15 | PAMELA : Pray , your honour , let me go down for it is not for me to hold an argument with your honour . |
| 16 | It is not for me to say whether the judges or the Lord Chief Justice should or will consent . |
| 17 | Whether Skelton needs to expand at the present moment is not for me to say . |
| 18 | Yet before them … perhaps it was pure cowardice , it is not for me to say . |
| 19 | It is not for me to say . ’ |
| 20 | Though it is not for me to say that . ’ |
| 21 | It is not for me to say what the states should do although I have a personal view . |
| 22 | But whether it 's therapeutic for the reader is not for me to say . |
| 23 | Thus , it is not for me to sit in judgement upon Daniel Miller . |
| 24 | It is not for me to refer that matter to the Select Committee . |
| 25 | But it is not for me to moralize . |
| 26 | Of course , it is not for me to suggest that I am worthy of ever being placed alongside the likes of the ‘ great ’ butlers of our generation , such as Mr Marshall or Mr Lane — though it should be said there are those who , perhaps out of misguided generosity , tend to do just this . |
| 27 | It is not for me to suggest ways in which the Bill should be improved now ; that is a matter for another day . |
| 28 | You may tell me that your personal life is not my concern and that it is not for me to comment — and you would be justified however , I can not help but make it my concern because I have your future very much at heart . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not for me to make reparation . |
| 30 | That is not for me to contribute to . |